Jorge Rogers Sotomayor

Jorge Rogers Sotomayor (1 August 1910 – 7 December 1997) was a Chilean lawyer and politician who served two terms in the Chamber of Deputies.

Biography

He was born in Santiago to Jorge Rogers Palma and María Sotomayor Lemoine. He married María Errázuriz Subercaseaux on 26 March 1960, with whom he had six children.

He studied at Colegio San Ignacio and later at the Faculty of Law of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, graduating as a lawyer on 12 November 1937 with the thesis Los acreedores ante el contrato de seguro.

Professional career Rogers worked in diverse public and private roles. He served as an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Tacna and Arica Section (1928), as legal adviser to the Valparaíso Fire Insurance Association (1939–1945), and as head of the Agricultural Economics Seminar at the University of Chile’s School of Agronomy (1953).

He was a lawyer for the State Railways Company of Chile and a councillor of the Chilean Development Corporation (CORFO). Later in his life, he worked in the judiciary as notary and secretary of the Petorca Court (1982) and as notary in Rengo from 1 April 1986.

Political career He first joined the Conservative Party, later the National Falange, and finally the Christian Democratic Party after its formation.

He was elected Deputy for the 25th Departmental Group (Ancud, Castro, Quinchao) for the 1945–1949 term, serving as substitute member of the Committees on Constitution, Legislation and Justice; Finance; Labor and Social Legislation; and Industry.

He was reelected for the 1949–1953 term, this time representing the 1st Departmental Group (Iquique, Arica, Pisagua). During this period he served as substitute member of the Committees on Constitution, Legislation and Justice; Public Works and Transportation; and Interior Police and Regulations. He also served as full member of the Finance Committee.

He died in Santiago on 7 December 1997.